Bedstead corner-fastening.



MORRIS B. OKUN, 0F CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ASSIGNOR T0 THE SENG COMPANY, OF

ILLINOIS.

BEDSTEAD CORNER-FASTENING.

Application filed To all 'whom [t Imoy concern:

Be it known that I. vMonats B. OKUX, a citizen of the' United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented new and useful Improvements in liedstead Corner-Fastenings, of which the following is a specification, reference heilig had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

The purpose of this invention is to pro vide an im )roved form of metal corner fastening for liedsteads.

It consists in the elements and features of construction shown and described, as indicated in the claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is an inner side elevation of a fitting embodying this invention. Fig. 2 is a section at the iline. 2-2 on Fig. 4. Fig. 3 is a plan view. Fig. 4 is a section at the line, 44 on Fig. i. Fig. 5 is a view similar t0 Fig. 1, showing a modification. Fig. 6 is a section at the line, 6-6, on Fig. 5. Fig. 7 is a detail section at the line, 7-7, on Fig. 5. rig. 8 is an elevation of an escutcheon plate. Fig. 9 is a perspective view of a detachable terminal for the cross rail in slightly modified forni from that shown in Fig. 2. Fig. l() is a section at the line, 10-10, on Fig. 5, showing the corner fastening secure to a wooden corner post.

In the structure shown in the drawings. referring to Figs. 1, 9. and 3 and ,4. l is a corner-post, 2 is a folded metal fitting or housing bolted t0 the corner-post and adapted for receiving. and having rigidly secured to it as hereinafter described, the cross-rail, 1S. andthe side-rail, 4. The general construction of this housing or fitting. '2, is the saine as shown and described in iny latent No, 1,126,068. dated January 26. `1915, and may be briefly described as formed of' a single piece of metal plate cui `and `folded to forni a back, 2, outer side, 2". inner side, 2*', front edge. 2, an( top, 2".

The front. 2"', has an aperture, 2, through ywhich the side-rail. 4, is inserted and the inner side, 2. front edge, 2, and top, 2. 1u a., which guides the clamping yoke. 5, logged within the housing. and constructed for clamping in place the side-rail. 4. by means of the clamping bolt. (i. which is insexted down through the top plate, 2, and

Specification of Letters Patent.

February 27. 1915.

vis struck out of the Vvertical Patented May 30, 1916.

Serial No. 10,902.

provided with a wing nut, 7, below the poke for clamping the yoke up against the siderail. This construction for holding and Securing the side-rail is fully described in my said latent No. l,l'2i' .()l' The novel features oil the present construction reiaic io the means i'o'r connecting the cross-mii to the housing. 2. In the forni shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3. the horimmtal flange of' the angle iron cross-rail, 3, is extended endwise t0 form a lug. Ii, which laps on top of the housing. and has a square aperture, 3, for the square shoulder of the bolt, (i, which takes through said aperture in the lug in extending through the housing for the ur pose of clamping the side rail as descriied, so that the bolt in performing its function of clamping the side rail, also secures the cross-rail. For further security of the cross-rail ri r,idly to the housing, the inner side-wall, 2, as a veltically-extending slot, 2, and the vertical flange of the angle iron cross-rail, 3, is cut awaysrto leave it projecting in the form` of a hookeiug, 3f, adapted to enter the slot, 2, and engage by means of the notch. 3", in its lower edge, the llower margin of the slot, 2k, thus effecting an engagement with the inner sidewall, 2, adapted to prevent endwise displacement of' the cross-rail. Inasmuch as the bolt, 6. is tight in its place only when the sided-ail is inserted in the housing so as to be kclamped by the bolt and the Clampuyoke, 5, it will be seen that the bedstead end frame with the housings. 2, mounted upon both posts and connected by the cross-rail, would not be suitably tied together and stili'ened by the cross-rail, asis the design and intention of the construction without the insertion of the side-rail. unless sonic ineans were provided for holding the crossrail in the positionin which it would he held by the tightening of the bolt,-that is. so that the cross-rail cannot lift up to dis engage its notch I5", from the margin of t ic slot, 2, of the housing inner yside plate. ln order to remedy this defect a smallA lug. i, iange voi the cross-rail, 3, in position to lie against the outer surface of the inner side plate, 2, of the housing, and be vsecured thereto by a screw, 9', set through a hole in said lug and into a tapped hole in said inner side plate small screw .are adequate for the purpose..

In the form shown in Figs. 4, and 6 and 7,- the horizontal flange of the cross-rail -of this clip,

1s constructed in the same manner as in the form shown in llsrzsQl, 2 and 3 and 4 for being engaged by the bolt, 6; but instead of the provision shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 for engaging the vrvertical flange of the cross-rail with the housing, a lug 2g, is struck outwardly from the inner side-wall, e housing, in position to be lapped vertical flange of the cross-rail and o ted or riveted thereto.. Preferably the u is positioned for lappin on the inner ge of the vertical flange o the cross-rail, as shown.

Since these devices are usually manufactured to be furnished to bedstead manufacturers, and to be embodied by the latter -1n their bedsteads, it is sometimes desirable to construct them so that the cross-l rail need not be furnished with the housing orfittings, but that on the contrary, the fittings may be sent out complete ready to be attached or have attached to them an angle iron cross-rail of any dimension (within the range of variation which is usual), the cross-rail requiring to have only two bolt or rivet holes drilled in it so as to secure it to the fitting. For this urpose there is provided a clip, 10, whic angle iron plate having the terminals similar to those which have been described as formed upon the two flanges of the angle iron cross-rail in Figs. 1, 2 and 3 and 4, and having bolt or riveteholes, 10a., 10", in the two flanges, prepared for bolting or riveting an angle iron cross rail tothis clip. When this clip is provided, it can be made of suitably mild steelto admit of having the lug of the horizontal flange which laps on top of the housing and receives the bolt, 6, struck upwardly from the plane of the said horizontal flange to a distance equal to the thickness of the metal of the housing, as seen in Fig. 7. en made in this form, it will be seen that an angle iron cross-rail applied outside the clip, will have its horizontal flange in the same plane as if it were formed as in the other figures, that is, with the lug formed on the end of theV horizontal flange of the angle .iron cross rail itself, and in the same plane with Ifthat flange for lapping on top of the housing; or if the angle iron bar is applied inside the clip, the horizontal flange of said cross-bar stands in the same plane as the horizontal flange or upper edge of the side rail secured by the clamp yoke. 5, and bolt, 6. The employment therefore affords opportunity for choice of position of the cross-rail at either of the two has its advantages.

In order to adapt the housing, 2, to be applied to the corner-posts, either round or square, and of any dimension round or square, and particularly to adapt such housings for use upon metal corner-posts of comparatively light tubing, whose thickness is not sufiicient to afford a secure fastening by means of bolts engaging merely the metal of the tubing, there are provided escutcheon plates, 15, for square corner-posts, and 16, for round corner-posts, having upon their a bead, 17, which defines vthe seat for the back o f the housing, 2, and boltpositions, each of which which the bolts, 19, are inserted to bind it t o the post; and in conjunction with -such escutcheon plate there is applied on the inside of the tubular corner-post a corrugated reinforcing or washer plate, 19a, the bolts for securing the housing to the corner-post metal of the tubular corner posts, and the clamping or washer plate, all the parts being clamped to the post by the same bolts. By the expedient of providing escutcheon plates which may be made of various'widths or various dimensions of square cornerposts, and with a marginal flange, 15, to clamp over the corners ofthe square cornerpost, and which may be made of various inner curvatures to fit the different sizes of round corner-posts, the same housing may be applied upon all sizes of corner-posts, both round and square. To adapt these metal housings to be used upon wooden corner posts, a plain escutcheon plate 21, with beads, 21, to define the seat for the back of the housing, bolt holes registering with the bolt holes of the housing, are interposed between the housing and the wooden corner post, both the housing and the escutcheon eing secured to the corner-post by lagbolts, 22. The escutcheon plate when pro vided on wooden corner-posts in this manner, not only affords an adequately broad bearing for A which the back of the housing alone might not be of adequate area to do, but in addi-- tion it prevents the mai-ring tendency to split sometimes result from binding the housing lthe curved or hollow back with .which it is formed for mounting upon round tu bular metal posts directly against the wood.

I c aim 1. A corner-post fastening consisti g of a folded sheet metal housing, having iti; front edge wall apertured for receiving a side rail; means for clamping such side-rail to the housing, comprising a bolt inserted through the top wall of the housing, and a cross-rail having its terminal comprising a horizontal and a vertical flange, the horizontal flang having an endwise projection adapted to lap on the top of the housing and to be bound to the latter by the clamping bolt which secures the Side rail, the inner side wall of the housin having means for engaging the vertical ange against endwise displacement of the side-rail.

2. A corner-post fastening comprising in combination, a folded sheet metal housing having its front edge wall apertured for receiving a side-rail; means for clamping such side-rail to the housing, comprising a bolt inserted through the top of the housing, and a cross-ral laiving aterininal for engaging the housing', lef'i'mprising a horizontal and a verti'c'ai ange, the horizontal flange having anendwise projection which hips upon the top of the housing yand is adapted to be clamped thereto by the bolt which clamps the side-rail, the side wall of the housing having a vertical slot, and the vertical flange of the cross-rail terminal being formed for hooking inwardly through and downwardly to engage the margin o slot, and to come into such engagement when the projection of the horizontal flange is lodged down upon housing.

3. A corner-post fastening comprising in combination, a folded sheet metal housing having its front edge wall aipertured for receiving a side-rail; means or clamping such side-rail to the housing, comprising a bolt inserted through the top of the housing, and a cross-rail having a terminal for engaging the housing, comprising a horizontal and a vertical flange, the horizontal flange having an endwise projection which laps upon the top of the housing and is adapted to be clamped thereto by the bolt which clamps the side-rail, the side wall of the housing having a vertical slot, and the vertical flange of the cross-rail terminal being formed hooking iiiwaidy lthrough and downwardly to engage the margin o slot, and to come into such engagement when the projection of thc horizontal flange is lodged down upon the top of the housing, said vertical flange having a lug struck an folded inwardly therefrom, lapping against the outer surface of the inner side wall of the housing and ineens for securing it thereto.

l. lu a bedstead corner fastening, in coinhination with a housing adapted to receive a side rail and a cross rail` having a back wall for mounting against the corner post which is longitudinally or vertically corrugated, forming a transversely concave seat facing toward the post; an escutcheon plate which forms a seat spanning the entire area of the back wall of the housing` and whose lateral extent exceeds that o said back wall, said escutclieon plate having longitudinal or vertically extending beads or corrugations which form lateral boundaries for the seat of the housing on the escutclieon plate and stops against the lateral movement of the housing on said plate; a washer plate adapted to be entered inside of the hollow corner post; the housing, escutcheon and washerplate having registering bolt holes', and bolts extending through the same and through the corner posts for clamping the housing and washer plate onto opposite sides of the wall of the corneriost, said bolt holes being at the crest o the longitudinal or vertically-extendingcorrugation of the back wall of the housing.

In a bedstead corner fastening, in combination with a housing adapted to receive a side rail and a cross rail, having a back wall for mounting against the corner post which is longitudinally i or vertically corrugated, constituting said wall inwardly transversely convex and forming a transversely concave seat facing towar -the post; an escutclieon plate which forms a seat spanning the entire area of the back wall of the housing and whose lateral extent exceeds that of said back wall, said escutcheon plate having a. medially situated longitudinal or vertically extending outwardly convex corrugation fitting said concave seat o the housing, and having longitudinal or ver'- tically extending beads or corrugations which form lateral boundaries for the seat of the housing on the esciitclieon plate and lstops against the lateral movement of the"I housing on said plate, said housing and escutcheon plate having bolt holes whicli register when the housing is seated on the esciitclieoii plate between said stops, and bolts extending through the same and, through the corner posts for clamping the housing and escutcheon thereto, said bo holes being at the crest of said longitudinally-extending and mated corrugations o the. housing and escutcheon plate.

G. In a bedstead corner fastening, in combination with a housincr adapted to receive a side rail and a cross rail, having a b wall for mounting against the corner-post which is longitudinally or vertically corrugated, forming a transversely concave seat facing toward the post; an escutclieon plate which forms a seat spanning the entire area of the back wall of the housing, anda washer plate adapted to be entered inside of a hollow corner-post, having a longitudinal corriigation transverselyy concavetoward the kwall of the post, an forming at its laterali limits longitudinally-extending seats bearing upon the wall of the post op-V posite the corresponding vertical o r longitudinal corners of the back of the housing` the housing. escutcheon and washer plate having registering bolt holes and bolts extending through the saine and through the corner-post for clamping the housing and my hand at Chicago, Illinois, this 23 day the washer plate onto opposite sides of the of February, 1915. wall of the corner-'p0st, said bolt-holes being at the crests of the longitudinal cor- I MORRIS B' OKUN' rugationsof the'back and the washer-plate, Witnesses: respectively. VILLIAM ROSE,

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set IDA G. OLSEN. 

